Jun 13, 2010
The 64th Annual Tony Awards were held on June 13, 2010 at Radio City Music Hall and were hosted by Sean Hayes.
"Fela!" and the revival of "La Cage aux Folles" had the most nominations going in with eleven each - but it was "Memphis" that was the best musical of the year. "Memphis" won four Tonys.
"Red" was named best play and won a total of six Tony Awards.
Besides performances by the casts of nominated musicals, the show also had performances by Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison from the TV show "Glee" and the band Green Day.
2010 Tony Award Winners
| Tony Award: Best Musical | |
| Memphis | |
| Other Nominees: American Idiot; Fela!; Million Dollar Quartet | |
| Tony Award: Best Play | |
| Red | |
| Other Nominees: In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play; Next Fall; Time Stands Still | |
| Tony Award: Best Book of a Musical | |
| Memphis | |
| Joe DiPietro | |
| Other Nominees: Everyday Rapture; Fela!; Million Dollar Quartet | |
| Tony Award: Best Original Score | |
| Memphis | |
| David Bryan; Joe DiPietro | |
| Other Nominees: The Addams Family; Enron; Fences | |
| Tony Award: Best Revival of a Musical | |
| La Cage aux Folles | |
| Other Nominees: Finian's Rainbow; A Little Night Music; Ragtime | |
| Tony Award: Best Revival of a Play | |
| Fences | |
| Other Nominees: Lend Me A Tenor; The Royal Family; A View From The Bridge | |
| Tony Award: Best Leading Actor in a Musical | |
| Douglas Hodge (La Cage aux Folles) | |
| Other Nominees: Kelsey Grammer (La Cage Aux Folles); Sean Hayes (Promises Promises); Chad Kimball (Memphis); Sahr Ngaujah (Fela!) | |
| Tony Award: Best Leading Actor in a Play | |
| Denzel Washington (Fences) | |
| Other Nominees: Jude Law (Hamlet); Alfred Molina (Red); Live Schreiber (A View From The Bridge); Christopher Walken (A Behanding In Spokane) | |
| Tony Award: Best Leading Actress in a Musical | |
| Catherine Zeta-Jones (A Little Night Music) | |
| Other Nominees: Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow); Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture); Montego Glover (Memphis); Christiane Noll (Ragtime) | |
| Tony Award: Best Leading Actress in a Play | |
| Viola Davis (Fences) | |
| Other Nominees: Valerie Harper (Looped); Linda Lavin (Collected Stories); Laura Linney (Time Stands Still); Jan Maxwell (The Royal Family) | |
| Tony Award: Best Featured Actor in a Musical | |
| Levi Kreis (Million Dollar Quartet) | |
| Other Nominees: Kevin Chamberlin (The Addams Family); Robin De Jesus (La Cage Aux Folles); Christopher Fitzgerald (Finian's Rainbow); Bobby Steggert (Ragtime) | |
| Tony Award: Best Featured Actor in a Play | |
| Eddie Redmayne (Red) | |
| Other Nominees: David Alan Grier (Race); Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences); Jon Michael Hill (Superior Donuts); Stephen Kunken (Enron) | |
| Tony Award: Best Featured Actress in a Musical | |
| Katie Finneran (Promises Promises) | |
| Other Nominees: Barbara Cook (Sondheim On Sondheim); Angela Lansbury (A Little Night Music); Karine Plantadit (Come Fly Away); Lillias White (Fela!) | |
| Tony Award: Best Featured Actress in a Play | |
| Scarlett Johansson (A View From The Bridge) | |
| Other Nominees: Maria Dizzia (In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play); Rosemary Harris (The Royal Family); Jessica Hecht (A View From The Bridge); Jan Maxwell (Lend Me A Tenor) | |
| Tony Award: Best Direction of a Musical | |
| Terry Johnson (La Cage aux Folles) | |
| Other Nominees: Chrisopher Ashley (Memphis); Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Ragtime); Bill T Jones (Fela!) | |
| Tony Award: Best Direction of a Play | |
| Michael Grandage (Red) | |
| Other Nominees: Sheryl Kaller (Next Fall); Kenny Leon (Fences); Gregory Mosher (A View From The Bridge) | |
| Tony Award: Best Choreography | |
| Bill T Jones (Fela!) | |
| Other Nominees: Promises Promises; La Cage Aux Folles; Come Fly Away | |
| Tony Award: Best Orchestrations | |
| Daryl Waters (Memphis) | |
| and David Bryan | |
| Other Nominees: La Cage Aux Folles; Fela!; Promises Promises | |
| Tony Award: Best Scenic Design of a Musical | |
| Christine Jones (American Idiot) | |
| Other Nominees: Fela!; Ragtime; La Cage Aux Folles | |
| Tony Award: Best Scenic Design of a Play | |
| Christopher Oram (Red) | |
| Other Nominees: The Royal Family; Present Laughter; Fences | |
| Tony Award: Best Costume Design of a Musical | |
| Marina Draghici (Fela!) | |
| Other Nominees: Ragtime; Memphis; La Cage Aux Folles | |
| Tony Award: Best Costume Design of a Play | |
| Catherine Zuber (The Royal Family) | |
| Other Nominees: Lend Me A Tenor; Fences; In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play | |
| Tony Award: Best Lighting Design of a Musical | |
| Kevin Adams (American Idiot) | |
| Other Nominees: Ragtime; La Cage Aux Folles; Fela! | |
| Tony Award: Best Lighting Design of a Play | |
| Neil Austin (Red) | |
| Other Nominees: Hamlet; Enron; Fences | |
| Tony Award: Best Sound Design of a Musical | |
| Robert Kaplowitz (Fela!) | |
| Other Nominees: La Cage Aux Folles; A Little Night Music; Sondheim On Sondheim | |
| Tony Award: Best Sound Design of a Play | |
| Adam Cork (Red) | |
| Other Nominees: Fences; Enron; A View From The Bridge | |
| Special Tony Award: Lifetime Achievement | |
| Alan Ayckbourn | |
| Special Tony Award: Lifetime Achievement | |
| Marian Seldes | |
| Tony Award: Isabelle Stevenson Award | |
| David Hyde Pierce | |
| Tony Award: Regional Theatre | |
| Eugene O'Neill Theater Center - Waterford CT | |
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